Counterscarp Definition

Counterscarp Sentence Examples

• They had incurred an additional loss of 13,000 men without substantial gain, except a lodgment on the counterscarp of Sung-Shu.

• On the 17th of November seven mines were exploded at Sung-Shu, which blew in the back of the counterscarp galleries.

• At Chi-Kuan, the counterscarp gallery had been breached by an ill-managed Russian mine on the 23rd of October and the Japanese got in through the breach and made a lodgment.

• They did not, however, get possession of the whole of the counterscarp galleries before about the middle of November.

• To facilitate sorties in great force he did away with a counterscarp wall, providing instead a long gentle slope from the bottom of the ditch to the crest of the glacis.